Michael P. Fischetti is Director, Acquisition Management and Support, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)/TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), with full authority and responsibility for acquisition policy, management, oversight and operations involving the obligation of billions of dollars annually for the DOD medical and dental program and related information systems and technology, arriving at TMA in October 2008. Fischetti is the Head of Contracting Activity (HCA), responsible for
managing all contracting functions for the health care, information technology and multiple supporting services contracts within TMA. More recently, Fischetti was also appointed as the Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) for the Military Health System (MHS), responsible for program management and oversight, acquisition workforce management and DoD 5000 policy implementation. In addition, he chairs the Acquisition Management Board. He is a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES).
Fischetti came to TRICARE from the Department of Energy, where he was Director of their Office of Procurement and Assistance Policy since 2004, responsible for supporting the development of government-wide policy through the FAR Council, managing, developing and issuing guidance to the Department’s FAR supplement, Acquisition Guide, Acquisition Letters and training in all aspects of procurement and the Department’s procurement regulatory system. He managed the DOE Acquisition Career Development program, the Commercial Services Management, Strategic Sourcing and Purchase Card programs, supported reviews of acquisition planning, solicitation and contract management actions and led changes in procurement policy and business re-engineering practices for the Department.
Fischetti has over 25 years of extensive acquisition experience in management, policy and contracting officer positions involved with all facets of government and agency policy development and implementation, oversight, program management and procurement operations of services, weapon systems and information technology from a variety of government and civilian organizations. These include GSA’s Federal Technology Service, NASA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Naval Information Systems Management Center, the Naval Air Systems Command, the Army Tank Automotive Command and Raytheon E-Systems, Inc.
Fischetti holds a Juris Doctor degree, a M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University (NDU) Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), a M.A. in Business Management from Central Michigan University and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition, he is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager and FAC-C certified, as well as attaining prior Level 3 certifications in contracting and program management with DOE and DoD. He has completed the Advanced Program Management Course from the Defense Systems Management College, the Senior Acquisition Course and Advanced Management Program at ICAF, the leadership program in Information Resources Management from the NDU Information Resources Management College and the Council for Excellence in Government Fellows Program from the Council for Excellence in Government, where he remains a Senior Fellow.
Fischetti is a member of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) Board of Directors, has been an Honorary Fellow with NCMA since December 1997 and is a former President, Vice President, Treasurer, Director, and Chairman of NCMA’s Washington, D.C. Chapter. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2006.
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